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Re: Science Fiction Trivia

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Cholmondely wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:18 pm
I'd sneak a peak at Thargoid's Aquatics - load up and visit Aqualina/Ribiara in G3. And then when you've had a good gander, see what comes to mind...
(First time firing up the Miner Cobra for a while.)
I'll have a look at that - my pilot happens to be in G3 at the moment.
The updates site seems to be down ?
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RockDoctor wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:18 pm
Cholmondely wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:18 pm
I'd sneak a peak at Thargoid's Aquatics - load up and visit Aqualina/Ribiara in G3. And then when you've had a good gander, see what comes to mind...
(First time firing up the Miner Cobra for a while.)
I'll have a look at that - my pilot happens to be in G3 at the moment.
The updates site seems to be down ?
Try http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/f/f ... s_2.30.oxz

I understand that pretty much every oxp has a download link on the relevant wiki page


Aqualina is one of the great undiscovered/unpublicised surprises in the game.
Comments wanted:
Missing OXPs? What do you think is missing?
Lore: The economics of ship building How many built for Aronar?
Lore: The Space Traders Flight Training Manual: Cowell & MgRath Do you agree with Redspear?
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Cholmondely wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:48 pm
RockDoctor wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:18 pm
Cholmondely wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 4:18 pm
I'd sneak a peak at Thargoid's Aquatics - load up and visit Aqualina/Ribiara in G3. And then when you've had a good gander, see what comes to mind...
(First time firing up the Miner Cobra for a while.)
I'll have a look at that - my pilot happens to be in G3 at the moment.
The updates site seems to be down ?
Try http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/f/f ... s_2.30.oxz

I understand that pretty much every oxp has a download link on the relevant wiki page


Aqualina is one of the great undiscovered/unpublicised surprises in the game.
Yep, seems to be working. Only about 42 ly away. I'm off, as the song says, to see the wizzzard!
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things must be slow when people are using the triva forum as a chat forum...

my turn for a question , again, ummm....

name 5 TV aliens thar were not human in form. tha measn not 3rd rock or mork or my favorite martian...

should be a quick round..
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spud42 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:22 pm
name 5 TV aliens thar were not human in form.
Pilot, from Farscape.
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The Horta from Star Trek (original series) - basically sentient mobile silicon rocks. Also appear in some Star Trek novels, and (in diagrams on screen) in later series. I did think they were also in the animated series but apparently not.

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Jabba Desilijic Tiure alias Jabba the hutt from the Star Wars Verse...
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knew this would be a quick round... 3 swings and 3 homeruns... (american sayings from an Aussie!!lol)

2 to go... dont be shy step up to the plate....
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The Daleks (Dr Who) - did any of them ever get personal names (or numbers)? I don't think so.
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that makes 4.... who is brave enough to be the 5th??
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I'll bite … the Pierson's Puppeteers, from Larry Niven's Known Space books.
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Big D takes the win... over to you Disembodied
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Okay … can we get five stories (film, TV, book etc.) where an important part of the story takes place on a moon - EXCLUDING Luna, the Earth's moon. For clarity, by "moon" I mean any non-artificial satellite of a planet which is sufficiently large enough to land on and walk around on. The moons can be real or fictional.

Usual rules: one answer per author/universe. The same moon can be reused, though, if it's used as a focus for stories by different authors/series/films.
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Pandora from the Avatar verse...
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cbr wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:40 pm
Pandora from the Avatar verse...
That's one!

Special, collectible, *gold-starred* MBP available if someone can come up with an answer set on a fictional moon of Earth …
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